| Titre : |
How Language Began : Gesture and speech in human evolution |
| Type de document : |
texte imprimé |
| Auteurs : |
David Mcneill, Auteur |
| Editeur : |
Combridge University Press |
| Année de publication : |
2012 |
| Importance : |
264 P. |
| Présentation : |
Couv.ill. en coul. , ill. , tab., pho., fig. |
| Format : |
24.5x17 Cm. |
| ISBN/ISSN/EAN : |
978-1-107-60549-7 |
| Langues : |
Anglais (eng) Langues originales : Anglais (eng) |
| Index. décimale : |
401 Philosophie et théorie |
| Résumé : |
Human language is not the same as human speech.We use gestures and
signs to communicate alongside, or instead of, speaking. Yet gestures
and speech are processed in the same areas of the human brain, and
the study of how both have evolved is central to research on the origins
of human communication. Written by one of the pioneers of the field,
this is the first book to explain how speech and gesture evolved together
into a system that all humans possess. Nearly all theorizing about the
origins of language either ignores gesture, views it as an add-on, or
supposes that language began in gesture and was later replaced by
speech. David McNeill challenges the popular “gesture-first” theory
that language first emerged in a gesture-only form, and proposes a
ground-breaking theory of the evolution of language which explains
how speech and gesture became unified. |
| Note de contenu : |
Contents
1 Introduction – gesture and the origin of language [1]
2 What evolved (in part) – the growth point [19]
3 How it evolved (in part) – Mead’s Loop [58]
4 Effects of Mead’s Loop [114]
5 Ontogenesis in evolution – evolution in ontogenesis [165]
6 Alternatives, their limits, and the science base of the
growth point [186 |
How Language Began : Gesture and speech in human evolution [texte imprimé] / David Mcneill, Auteur . - New York : Combridge University Press, 2012 . - 264 P. : Couv.ill. en coul. , ill. , tab., pho., fig. ; 24.5x17 Cm. ISBN : 978-1-107-60549-7 Langues : Anglais ( eng) Langues originales : Anglais ( eng)
| Index. décimale : |
401 Philosophie et théorie |
| Résumé : |
Human language is not the same as human speech.We use gestures and
signs to communicate alongside, or instead of, speaking. Yet gestures
and speech are processed in the same areas of the human brain, and
the study of how both have evolved is central to research on the origins
of human communication. Written by one of the pioneers of the field,
this is the first book to explain how speech and gesture evolved together
into a system that all humans possess. Nearly all theorizing about the
origins of language either ignores gesture, views it as an add-on, or
supposes that language began in gesture and was later replaced by
speech. David McNeill challenges the popular “gesture-first” theory
that language first emerged in a gesture-only form, and proposes a
ground-breaking theory of the evolution of language which explains
how speech and gesture became unified. |
| Note de contenu : |
Contents
1 Introduction – gesture and the origin of language [1]
2 What evolved (in part) – the growth point [19]
3 How it evolved (in part) – Mead’s Loop [58]
4 Effects of Mead’s Loop [114]
5 Ontogenesis in evolution – evolution in ontogenesis [165]
6 Alternatives, their limits, and the science base of the
growth point [186 |
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How Language Began
